The Water Ghost and Others

Eight stories originally published in Harper's Weekly, 1891 to 1893. At least the first edition (American Story-Tellers series) includes the original illustrations, if any, and no others, reproduced as full-page. Most or all by A. B. Frost.

Bangs was humor editor of multiple Harper magazines from 1889 to 1900 -- Wikipedia

"contains his best work" -- SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)

1st ed. LCCN links e-copy at HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) and {{OCLC|223272}} Publ date and price from notices Harper's Weekly 1894-08-25 p811, 816 -- "16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 25. (Ready August 24.)" -- one of two new titles in the American Story-Tellers series, apparently the 5th and 6th issues; one of 15 Books of the Season

HDL (catalog record) provides full view of 4 copies (all state 1894 both title and copyright pages; three with original cover, otherwise apparently identical, that from U California probably best) -- cover navy blue cloth with gold and silver stamped lettering and design, as "John K. Bangs" -- title page "John Kendrick Bangs"; "Illustrated" (no credit) -- unnumbered front pages include Illustrations, lists 41, frontispiece plus 40 (b/w, two media, each on one leaf included in the pagination)

Illustrations are all and only those from the original magazine publications (see the stories for information): 4 stories only; all originally credited to "A. B. Frost", none credited here; many signed "F", "A.B.F.", or "A.B.Frost"